Friday, April 15, 2011

Guest Room Redo - On a budget

Guest Room Before:

I get so excited to do a room/project that I forget to take a before picture. Here are a couple photos from the "before" room taken to show a couple items that I was selling on Craigslist. Our guest room definitely was a "let's get the necessities without spending any money" kind of room. The walls were a nice tan; however, I wanted to change directions and move to the blue, green, gray tones and add some classic and antique style to give it a luxury kind of feel.

Everything I found in this room was either majorly discounted from large retailers or found at local thrift stores. My biggest splurge for the room would be the duvet comforter. The comforter was my starting point and I designed the room around it. I love this comforter, the colors in it are gorgeous. However, I cannot pay full price for ANYTHING. I tried to find a fabric I liked as much and contemplated sewing my own duvet....but I just kept coming back to this one and new it was it! So, I searched eBay until I got my very own for $103. More than I wanted to spend, but a lot less than if I ordered it directly from their site and paid their shipping.

I created the wall art by using photos from a book I found at a thrift store for $5 and frames I found for $3/each on clearance at Target. The photos are of Christ's tomb and Jerusalem...very meaningful to me.

I found the the brown panels on clearance for $6/each from a local fabric store, and used a coupon for the sheer at Bed Bath & Beyond, totaling only $22 for all of three window treatments! I couldn't even make them for that cheap!

I was very excited about the lamp, I found the lamp base at a thrift store for $13. It came with a lamp shade that was U.G.L.Y. So I told them to go ahead and keep it, because for $13...I knew I had found myself a steal with the base alone. I found a drum shade I liked at Target for $14 to compliment it. The same lamp base sells at Pottery Barn for $110 seen here.

Trisha D. Atkinson

After years of realizing my love and passion for design, decorating, and creating things for myself, family, and friends, I decided to start my own home based interior decorating company in Cedar Hills, UT. I am a stay at home mother of four beautiful children and a wife to an amazing man that puts up with my constant rearranging, shopping, and repurposing addictions! My most favorite thing to do is to recreate something for less, for I firmly believe that beauty doesn’t always have to be expensive. I created this site to document my “redo’s” of both personal and client projects.